Meghan Markle’s makeup artist Daniel Martin has defended his longtime friend from the “negative press” in a new interview.Speaking to CBS This Morning’s Gayle King for an upcoming special “Meghan and Harry Plus One,” Martin said despite her new circumstances, the Duchess of Sussex is still “Meghan to me”.And, according to Martin, who did Meghan’s makeup for her wedding to Prince Harry last May and who attended the duchess’s New York City baby shower, the royal has remained down to Earth.“I could totally see her making her own baby food,” Martin told King during a preview for the TV special, which airs 17 May: “She loves to cook.Touching on Meghan’s lavish baby shower, which King said “turned into a thing,” Martin admitted the former actress’s friends just wanted her “home” to celebrate.“All of us here just wanted her home and to celebrate her new baby,” he said of the event, which cost a reported $200,000 (£152,000).> For the first time, some of Meghan Markle’s best friends are giving @GayleKing a rare and intimate look at the life of the Duchess of Sussex. > > A @CBSNews special, "Meghan and Harry Plus One," airs TONIGHT at 8/7c on @CBS. pic.twitter.com/heCyTrX5N3> > — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) > > May 17, 2019The makeup artist then became tearful as he explained to King that the 37-year-old does not deserve the accusations that she is difficult or “demanding”.“You hear these stories and there’s no truth to them,” he said. “I think cause I know her so well and I know she doesn’t deserve all this negative press.”During the interview, King also spoke to Meghan’s friend, actress Janina Gavankar, who revealed that the duchess “always wanted to be a mum” and has spoken about becoming one for “over a decade”.“She’s gonna be such a good mother,” she said. “I think she will be very low maintenance. I think that she will be very hands on.”As for the couple’s newborn baby, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, Martin said he is the “dawn of a new generation”.“Their child is going to represent what the world is now.”The CBS special airs Friday at 8pm ET.

Princess Diana's biographer Andrew Morton suggests Thomas Markle is trying to heal the rift with his estranged daughter Meghan.
Speaking on Yahoo UK's 'The Royal Box,' Morton says: "Thomas Markle has been very quiet recently.
"He’d been approached by Italian, French and German and other TV channels to talk about his relationship with Meghan, or non-relationship, and he turned them down."
PR expert Nick Ede says: "I think Thomas of all them is going to be the one who actually wants to build this bridge and heal that rift.
"I think Samantha, on the other hand, is very much about headlines, financial gain, so I don’t think she’s going to go quiet, but I do think Thomas will definitely."
Historian Kate Williams adds: "I think you also have to accept the fact that we may not be completely privy to everything that is going on.
"We do not know what kind of conversations may or may not have taken place.
"Absolutely there is this sense that her father has been a loose cannon in the media, around the time of the marriage. In the last few weeks he has been notably absent from the air waves.
"He did, I think, an appropriate statement on the birth, so I think we have to kind of give them the benefit of the doubt for that."
Watch the full episode of Yahoo UK’s show ‘The Royal Box,‘ here .

Ahead of the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son Archie, there were reports that the couple were looking to hire an American nanny or even a "manny" (a male nanny).
Royal author Katie Nicholl says: "I think we’ve come to expect that this is a couple that will do things differently, they’ll shake up tradition, they’ll push those royal boundaries."
Speaking to Yahoo UK's 'The Royal Box,' Nicholl adds: "I think there’s every chance that the nanny could be American.
"I think it’s probably quite likely that they’re not going to be a Norland nanny. I don’t think that sort of traditionalism, that perhaps we’ve seen with the Cambridges, is the way the Sussexes want to go.
"I certainly hear that Harry, not just Meghan, would like to have a more relaxed approach to their parenting, perhaps a bit more modern and progressive in that respect.
"So it could be a ‘Manny’ and it certainly could be American, but I don’t expect it will be a Norland nanny. I suspect it will probably be somebody who has been recommended by one of their good friends."

One of the reasons why the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to move to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor is because they want to keep their newborn son away from the spotlight, says one royal author.
Speaking on Yahoo UK’s ‘The Royal Box,’ author Katie Nicholl says: “One of the reasons that the couple chose to move to Frogmore in Windsor because they knew that they could create fortress there, that they could just get away, and that they felt that Kensington Palace was very much a goldfish bowl.”
Harry and Meghan moved into the renovated Grade-II listed property at the beginning of April, ahead of the birth of their first child Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor

Archie will be the most popular name in the UK by 2025, according to new research. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex introduced their newborn son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor to the world on Wednesday, sparking a flood of interest in the name. Researchers at family history website Ancestry.co.uk measured its popularity by analysing historic census records and data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

New Royal baby, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, will become a Prince with his parents’ blessing once his grandfather Prince Charles is King, the Evening Standard has learned. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have agreed that their son will also be given the title “His Royal Highness” which is his right as the grandson of a reigning monarch through the male line. “The Sussexes have chosen not to give their children courtesy titles at this time, however, on the change of reign the George V convention would apply,” a senior source told the Evening Standard.